A grave divine, preaching before the university, at St Mary's, had this passage in his sermon, that, as at the Olympian Games, HE was counted the conqueror who could drive his chariot wheels nearest the mark, yet so as not to hinder his running, or stick thereon … so he who in his sermons could preach near popery, and yet no popery, ‘there was your man’.

… I am commanded by the House of Commons assembled in Parliament, to pray and require you to send forthwith to unto them, true information of the names of all such persons within your University of Cambridge as since the 13th of Queen Elizabeth, have written or published any points of doctrine contrary to the Articles of Religion established in that year, or contrary to the true and generally received sense of those Articles, or the current doctrine of the Church of England… and withal to certify what Acts, Determinations, Censures, Recantations, Subscriptions or other proceedings, have been thereupon had or made, together with true copies of the same, wherein have observed the commands of the House and nothing doubting of your care and endeavour for the spedy and effectual satisfaction of the House therein I rest.